This volume is saved by the short story opener. The continuation of the main narrative takes us from the last volume's implausible-but-interesting (Matty becomes fully enmeshed as a citizen of the DMZ, a doer who relinquishes his passive, journalistic objectivity) to the pathetic (Matty spends th...
This is where it all comes together. The first 2 issues are backstory on the FSA Commander from the Tunnel, the one Matty always finds himself tangled up with and trying to figure out. The story does a very good job of fleshing out a character who's essential to the whole series in many ways, bu...
Oh hey there, Moral Event Horizon! Guess we won't be needing to stay on this side of you any more!Yeah, this is quite meh. I don't really care about Delgado Nation Matty Roth. He's just another warlord. Part of the appeal of DMZ was the was that it was written from a subordinate perspective, that...
I finally feel like Wood's back in the swing of things with this volume. At this point, we've seen 5 straight volumes about the horrors of war and the duplicitous nature of the armies on each side, so it felt like a shift in tone was needed to keep this series going. Luckily, Wood achieved that i...
This Volume returns to Matty Roth and the big story after Vol 5. covered other characters.This time, it's about an election to put a provisional government in the DMZ. Matty is covering the story for Liberty News (even though he hates them), and what follows is a very interesting story about a '...